Ashley Beyer

Concrete usually comes with a cold, industrial feel, but Wheat Ridge-based Concrete Seven is trying to change that perception. Launched in 2008 by owner Brad Weiman, the company fashions modern, not-too-pricey ($65 to $150 per square foot) alternatives to traditional countertops like laminate...

Everybody has a go-to watering hole to watch the game. And while most of us don’t want our living rooms to look like sports bars, you can bring home a touch of that pub-like nostalgia with Zeon Corporation’s neon signs. The Louisville-based sign manufacturer (zeon.com) opened in 1980 with...

Jared Hankins and Grant Louwagie discovered their niche a few years ago when a client commissioned them to create a wall hanging using…resin. It was a little different than the typical oil-on-canvas request, but the two designers—principals of the Denver-based Blender Design Group—obliged with a 40...

When Jesse Detschermitsch exiled his wife, Lisa, from his woodshop a week before Christmas last year, she knew something exciting was in the making—she just didn’t think it would be a furniture business. Seven days later, Jesse, a woodworker whose family also owns an upholstery business, surprised...